The prosecution of the Quinns has reawakened nationwide anguish and finger pointing about the reasons for the cataclysmic collapse of the Irish economy which had sailed so high on speculative fever for nearly 15 years.

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In its report the commission gave six specific reasons for the collapse, five of which related to the design or construction of the building.

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Makukula has been more forthcoming with details regarding the reasons for the collapse of the move.

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The bank is more than usually anxious to avert a collapse of the rouble for two reasons.

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Mr Sarris cited the "lack of substantial liquidity and significant risk of deposits outflow, with possible outcome the collapse of the credit institutions" as the reasons for the restrictions.

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That collectively weakened the balance sheet of the U.S. corporate sector and was among the reasons the market collapse hit the economy so hard.

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"I won't claim to have had any premonitions about the collapse, but one of the reasons I left was that we had moved so far away from fundamentals into a heady market that I wasn't really having fun anymore, " she says.

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Indeed the collapse of oil prices, one of the few reasons around for economic cheer, may be setting the stage for another spike.

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We can't afford -- no pun intended and for whatever many reasons -- to go back to a regulatory system that we had in place that led to the type of financial collapse that required the taxpayers to become involved.

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